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12-02-2016, 02:46 PM | #91 (permalink) | ||
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Jesus! At 14 I was reading Douglas Adams, Terry Pratchett and Alan Dean Foster! Were you ever even a child??
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12-02-2016, 02:47 PM | #92 (permalink) |
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Sometimes. I read House of the Scorpion at 12 and loved it.
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12-02-2016, 03:12 PM | #93 (permalink) |
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I joined the library at age eight and got The Jungle Book out. I was most upset that there were no dancing bears, crafty snakes or high-and-mighty tigers in it!
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12-02-2016, 03:35 PM | #94 (permalink) | |
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Dude, you need to read all the Hitchhiker's Guide books. The last one might not be great but you still have to read it. *******.
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12-02-2016, 03:42 PM | #96 (permalink) | |
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It's actually good though. I'd definitely recommend it as a good way to tie up the story after reading the last Adams book.
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05-20-2017, 01:23 PM | #97 (permalink) |
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My ten would be:
1984 by George Orwell Brave New World by Aldous Huxley Manufacturing Consent by Noam Chomsky Discipline and Punish by Michel Foucault On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking On Liberty by John Stuart Mill On Writing Well by William Zinsser Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift I listed ten books I thought would be important to read instead of listing my top ten favourites (although it is pretty close to what my top ten favourites would be). Fans of Douglas Adams should read his book Last Chance to See. I liked it a lot more than Hitchhiker's (and I liked Hitchhiker's). I wish Adams had written more non-fiction. |
05-20-2017, 01:30 PM | #98 (permalink) | |
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I want a Youtube video of Ken Ham reading On the Origin of the Species out loud.
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05-20-2017, 01:35 PM | #99 (permalink) | |
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05-20-2017, 03:15 PM | #100 (permalink) |
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Wanna stab yourself in the stomach? Have a kid and then read King's Pet Cemetery a few weeks later.
I made this mistake. Very few books have made me break down and cry. That was one of them. On The Beach and The Road are two others I can think of right now.
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